Shorts: Unortho-Docs

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Shorts: Unortho-Docs

Program Notes

This innovative collection plays in the gray, showcasing works on the cusp of multiple genres. Beyond mere documentary, these works astutely blend aspects of narrative, animation, comedy, or the avant-garde into markedly nontraditional frameworks.

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The shadows of Napoleon's army fall upon a boat traveling through the mysterious cave named after her legend Marie Jeanne, a female soldier who fought in the Haitian Revolution. It is this battle inside her cave that will become the most successful slave revolution in history.

HALF A CHICKEN

Sarah Ginsburg and Will Lennon, 2018, USA, 8 MIN, World Premiere

Bryan struggles to keep to his chicken alive.

MIEDO DE MONOS (FEAR OF MONKEYS)

Michael Arcos, 2018, USA, 6 MIN

My father told me a story about why he is afraid of monkeys.
His fear dates back to 1958 in Ecuador.
This is what happened........

MY DEAD DAD'S PORNO TAPES

Charlie Tyrell, 2017, Canada, 14 MIN

Filmmaker Charlie Tyrell seeks to better understand his emotionally distant late-father through the personal belongings he left behind... including a stack of VHS dirty movies. Narrated by David Wain.

OPTIMISM

Deborah Stratman, 2018, USA, 15 MIN

Draw down the sun. Sift up the gold.
The urge to relieve a winter valley of permanent shadow and find fortune in alluvial gravel are part of a long history of desire and extraction in the far Canadian north.

PALENQUE

Sebastián Pinzón Silva, 2017, Colombia, 25 MIN

Guided by motifs of life and death, PALENQUE is an ode to a small town that has greatly contributed to the collective memory of Colombia: San Basilio de Palenque, the first town in the Americas to have broken free from European domination.

PUMPKIN MOVIE

Sophy Romvari, 2017, Canada, 10 MIN

On Halloween, the director and her friend Skype each other with creepy stories of a particular bent.

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